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EW Grand Jury India Preschool Rankings 2023-24

Teacher-Parent-Student Engagement Future-Ready Preschools
Preschools which encourage and facilitate interaction and Pre-primaries that have demonstrated high potential to
exchange of ideas between teachers, parents and children quickly adopt, upgrade and integrate 21st-century ECCE
to enable holistic development of students. best practices.

Rank
Rank
India
India 1 Little Chipper International, Agra
1 Amarjyoti Saraswati International School (Pre-primary), Bhavnagar 2 Beansprouts Pre-primary, Malibu Town, Gurugram
2 Children's Nook Activity Centre, Tardeo, Mumbai 3 Tic Tac Toe Preschool, Pimple Nilakh, Pune
3 Indus Valley World School (Pre-primary), Kolkata 4 Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Reliance Foundation School
4 Vedant Toddler Tech Preschool, Borivali (W), Mumbai (Pre-primary), Jamnagar
4 Little Wonders International, Nashik 5 Little Bright Stars, Kolkata
5 Sunshine World, Ludhiana 5 Sunbeam School (Pre-primary), Annapurna, Varanasi
5 Aura Kids Castle, Karelibaug, Vadodara 6 Little One The Jaipuria Preschool, Lucknow
6 The Achievers Preschool, Nagpur 6 The Aga Khan Preschool, Anand
7 Little Aryans Pre-K, Nandivali, Kalyan 7 George Kids School, Haridevpur, Kolkata
8 Allen Kids, Allenhouse Public School, Panki, Kanpur 8 Pona's First Step Preschool, Hyderabad
9 The Palms Global School, Sonipat 8 The Alpha Millennium International Preschool, Adyar, Chennai
10 Penguin Kids (New Horizon Public School), Airoli 9 Toddlers Cambridge International Early Years Centre, Banjara
Hills, Hyderabad
We are honoured and blessed that the EW grand 10 Semillero International Preschool, Balagere, Bengaluru
jury has conferred #1 rank under the important 10 Leaping Feat Preschool and Multi-activity Centre, Mumbai
“parameter of teacher-parent-student engagement
on our pre-primary section. I believe that synergy
between teachers, students and parents is vital for the
holistic development of youngest children. Our parents
trust and fully support the management and teachers
to implement innovative pedagogies and activities, and
our teachers ensure that parents are well-informed and
involved in children’s school activities. Recently, we
introduced a Mothers’ Club which organises monthly
parent engagement programmes” — Amarjyotiba
Gohil, Director, Amarjyoti Saraswati International
School, Bhavnagar (500 students and 40 teachers)

Last year, Little Chipper was ranked among India’s
Top 5 future-ready preschools. This year, we are
“ranked #1 — an exceptional honour not just for our
team, but for the entire city of Agra! I attribute our rise
in the EW league table to our dedicated focus on using
experiential pedagogies to create stimulating environ-
ments in which children learn through play and enjoyable
activities. This is supplemented by enabling infrastructure
featuring cheerful classrooms, garden patio, a Makers
Lab with 3D printing facilities, music and sports rooms,
and AI-enabled art stations. We believe in the Japanese
philosophy of Kaizen i.e, to constantly evolve and learn
and are fully committed to integrating latest research
and pedagogies in early childhood education” — Sonia
Agarwal Bajaj (left), founder, Little Chipper Inter-
national Preschool, Agra (75 pupils and 10 teachers)

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